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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Your Family Tree

My daughter was looking at some genealogy information online recently and asked me what a sororal nephew was. I didn't know, so I looked it up. A sororal niece or nephew would be your sister's kids. Don't ask me what your brother's kids would be called.

While I was at it, I thought I'd get to the bottom of first cousins, second cousins and the once / twice removed business. I went to genealogy.com and found the information below. I just copied and pasted it but here's a link .

Relationship Terms

Cousin (a.k.a "first cousin")

Your first cousins are the people in your family who have two of
the same grandparents as you. In other words, they are the children
of your aunts and uncles.

Second Cousin

Your second cousins are the people in your family who have the same
great-grandparents as you., but not the same grandparents.

Third, Fourth, and Fifth Cousins

Your third cousins have the same great-great-grandparents, fourth
cousins have the same great-great-great-grandparents, and so on.

Removed

When the word "removed" is used to describe a relationship, it indicates
that the two people are from different generations. You and your first
cousins are in the same generation (two generations younger than your
grandparents), so the word "removed" is not used to describe
your relationship.

The words "once removed" mean that there is a difference of one
generation. For example, your mother's first cousin is your first
cousin, once removed. This is because your mother's first cousin
is one generation younger than your grandparents and you are two
generations younger than your grandparents. This one-generation
difference equals "once removed."

Twice removed means that there is a two-generation difference.
You are two generations younger than a first cousin of your grandmother,
so you and your grandmother's first cousin are first cousins, twice
removed.

14 comments:

I always wondered about the removed thing also. I have cousins (we call them that) who are the kids of my...heck, I was going to write the whole thing out, but I get too confused. Anyway, a fun post about crazy big families. Thanks!

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